@supercool: The Harry Potter series is such an amazing catalogue of characterisation, and J.K.R. is a role model when it comes to empathy. Snape was a bully and a villain as a teacher (poor Neville!) but Harry was forced to contend with the fact that this same, hateful person saved his life again and again, and acted very bravely in the face of incredible danger. He had to emerge from the notion that in the rivalry between Snape and his father, one was good and the other evil. Except for Voldemort, nobody in the series is pure evil, and even there, pure evil is nothing but the complete absence of love. It makes the very strong case that people become who they are for very specific reasons, and in order to take evil down, it's not enough to pass judgment and rush into battle; you have to contend with the tragedy that often underlies the emergence of that hate and the desire for power.
And I completely agree that the characters on the show have presently lost that capacity. The best quality of Sona and Dev's early relationship was that they always apologised mutually after a fight, even when one was more in the wrong, because they were not only apologising for the act that hurt the other person, but also for that moment when they failed to empathise with the other person. Somewhere along the way, in all the bitterness, they lost that ability, which is why they are so unwilling to look at their own faults now, and are eager to point out the other's. Here's hoping for a gradual return of empathy.
@DQ: Facades have started falling for sure, as represented by that half-destroyed wall, through which Dev is doing his creepy ogling. Dev can't stand being excluded by Sona, either physically or psychologically, and he is desperately trying to get a read on her current state. I think that is why he was quiet and observant for the majority of yesterday's episode... he has to figure out what her weakness is so he can use it to get her out of the office. And you are right, the school thing did not go unnoticed, but I think it's being banked and to be used as a flashback that will fuel Dev's anger at Sona.
@Chandni: I love this idea from your post!
"U leave I won't for me symbolized like U left n I didn't leave U..."
It makes so much sense that their refusal to budge now stems from their stubborn and divided views about who left whom during the separation.
@Geena: I agree, Sona is employing a lot of confirmation bias here. She wants Dev to be the villain in her story so she can justify concealing Suhana. But there is also the fact that Dev and Suhana are yet very compartmentalised in Sona's mind. She isn't really thinking as Suhana's mother when she is in the midst of this tashan with Dev.The intense focus with which she fights Dev, forgetting all her other roles for those moments, is the only thing that betrays her facade of complete composure and shows us that her connection with Dev is still uniquely profound. Reminds me of her engagement; she was supposed to be with Ritwick, but there was a magnetic connection between Sona and Dev that day, as though when they locked eyes, everyone else in the room faded. That is still happening. But when she is Soha's mother, she is a completely different person... cool, composed, and able to confront any complexity, including assuring Soha that her father wasn't a bad person. This tendency to compartmentalise is very Dev 1.0, and it's exciting to see the role reversal.
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